the stupidity of people these days....

ha, big corp. fail

that is high-larious.

I hear "honest customer service" will get you outright banned.

Well, seeing as Buy.com is a real site, and that they sorta compete with BestBuy.com...

comments spelling fail. What the hell is organge?

Best Buy is just the catalog showroom for newegg.com and buy.com

I see nothing wrong with that. It's their own forum, and if that got posted, then their own forum would have a clickable link to their own competition.

Just as Lowes wouldn't want Home Depot to be putting up flyers in their store. Yes, my example is intentional, but the outcome is the same.

Of course, this may be a common error, and the software should have an auto-correct "I see you entered best buy.com. Did you mean bestbuy.com?"

Best Buy has to be one of the worst stores ever. I always cringe when I receive Best Buy gift certificates as presents. I'd almost rather people just give something to charity in my name. I can never bring myself to buy anything that is horribly overpriced, which is most of what Best Buy sells.

@Dooley: Have to agree with you. It's their forum. Just like Consumerist moderates it's forums according to their rules, Best Buy can do the same thing. I browse a forum on shaving/razors, and they have a few sites that they have "had trouble" with, so they block bringing up the sites names.

Not surprising, it's designed to filter posts like "I got this so much cheaper at buy.com!"

@quagmire0: But if you're getting a gift certificate, it's free to you.

@Dooley:

Streisand Effect. More companies should read about it. The secret is not to sweat about the little things. A link to your "competition" is a very little thing. :)

Wow, people are pissed they tell you it isn't allowed, yet think it's cute when woot! auto-censors/edits your comments? i.e. What a load of carp. Manos, Hands of Fate! Pancaaaaaaaaakes!

not that i've heard anything particularly good about buy.com either

You don't suppose that the forum software is just automatically filtering links to other websites (especially other stores) to prevent spam or maybe BestBuy doesn't want people advertising/linking to websites outside the forum, do you?

BestBuy does more than enough on their own to make themselves look foolish on a near regular basis, But hey! Any cheap shot to take at a large corporation on their own forum though, thats pretty awesome. Right?

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I have to say though, buy.com isn't exactly the poster child for good companies either. I actually don't mind being in Best Buy. *ducks*

@Dooley: And I'd counter with, "Whatever you do, don't go to buy.com. Their prices are much higher than Bestbuy.com."

@Dooley: Sure, they can do it, but I can think it's idiotic.

@spoco: I'd like to know if anyone had any luck finding one in organge, myself. As the OP points out, "mayb they messed up the description?"

@BlueLabCoatWanting_GitEmSteveDave: Well, woot at least tries to be amusing with it, and it's fun to figure out what word they censored.

@joeblevins: I wish I hung around so I could see what that said before it got disemvoweled.

@rbb:

Glad I am not the only who thinks and does that too

@rbb: I know I go into bestbuy and microcenter to check stuff out before I order it on newegg. I've had wonderful experiences with newegg, and won't use best buy ever again, after they tried to charge me an extra $100 for "registry tweaks and remove (and I quote) bloatware" to a laptop I was buying.

Now why would you sell me a laptop with shit on it I don't want and then charge me to take it off? How is that different than viruses that infect your machine and then serve you ads trying to get you to buy their 'anti-virus' program?

@pecan 3.14159265: I've often wondered how a gift certificate is less tacky than cash or check for a present.

is it because you're giving something? or is it because you're paying more for it than they're likely to be able to spend (with fees and what not)

I was writing a movie review while logged onto the actual netflix site and they don't let you use the word 'netflix' in a comment. I don't know why.

@pecan 3.14159265: luckly for us here at consumerist we always swing for below the belt anyway. :D

@Bearded Rapper:

I enjoy disemvoweling because its like a little puzzle for your brain.

Maybe they should have disemvoweled Buy.com instead.

@Bearded Rapper:

probably

Why is This posted here Best Buy doesn't want advertise competing stores in their store wow.. so evil

@snowburnt: I don't mind getting gift certificates or cards as long as it is to a place that offers things I like. For example...I don't shop at JC Penney, but I do buy clothes and shoes, and I wouldn't despite a gift card from there because I'm sure I would be able to use it toward a gift for someone else. Now a gift card for something not remotely near my age range, like Coldwater Creek, is a totally other matter as there is nothing there I would ever want, and is an insult since it is apparent that person never bothered to think of a gift for me to begin with.

I don't mind cash either. I'd rather get cash or a gift card rather than the umpteenth candle or Bath and Body Works body wash set.

@nybiker: I'm wondering if that's to keep individual reviews from ending up on google and stuff?

@quagmire0: I have made a donation to "The Human Fund" in your name. Merry Christmas!

@harlock_JDS: Smart! I had it until near the end and stuff started oozing out of my ear

BestBuy.com is crap development at its best. They don't do anything interesting, innovative, or better than anyone else.

@exploded: @exploded:

the bloatware shit comes straight from the manufacturer, and you're gonna get it from Newegg too, do you seriously think Best Buy takes the time to open up the laptop and preload it with software that they then charge you to take off? and its not $100 for that service.

@exploded: I was looking at microcenter not too long ago and it looked like their prices were as good if not better than new eggs, has that changed?

I wonder if he started calling it WorstBuy.com the message would go through?

@UrIt: Buy.com is full of fail. Last time I bought something there, my credit card got pinged by some discount club scam.

@Bearded Rapper: Reason has no place here.

@BlueLabCoatWanting_GitEmSteveDave: As long as they replace censored words with MST3k references, that's ok with me.

Otherwise, censoring just gets you bad press and frustrated users. If you really have the best deals and prices, what do you have to fear with a link to the competition and open discussion? The truth will get around anyway.

@Bearded Rapper: @spoco: also, "mayb".

And to add insult to injury: "This weeks". "any one" is arguable, so I won't point it out.

...Oh.

@unobservant: Maybe it rhymes with orange. Wait, nope...

The amount of people spergin out about Best Buy and not discussing the post is pretty funny. Ah, the internet.

Anyway, I agree with their policy. I wouldn't allow competitive advertiser links on my own forum either!

@nybiker: It's probably to prevent the morons from trying to "talk to Netflix" on the review or review the delivery of the movie as opposed to the movie itself.

Have you ever seen "Hey, this movie came in scratched can netflix send me another one?" on a movie review? I have!

Truth be told this type of thing can happen in comment systems all the day. At my old newspaper we had countless problems with our cuss word filter. We had a pretty extensive list, at least 700 + words and if there was any type of typo it could cause serious problems. The words "Hair" "bucket" and "pie" where once blocked because a couple spaces where missing and managed to make those words.

Buy.Com is a curseword.